Autumn Term 1
Hedgehogs 2025-2026
Week 7 20.10.25 This week Hedgehogs have been super busy. In Science we learnt all about the late Dame Jane Goodall - we found her life's work fascinating! In Art, we made our beautiful clay sculptures. The children took so much time over using the correct clay skills and making their clay work look as detailed as possible. Finally, in English we have written some great Science Fiction stories which will keep the reader hooked and have some shocking plot twists.
Our Confidence award winners! 24.10.25
Week 6 13/10/2025 The excitement never ends in Hedgehogs! This week some of the children have been brave enough to take their bikes on the road for Bikeability. The children all respresented our school wonderfully, kept to the rules of the road, showed aspiration and resilience, too! On Wednesday we took part in the Beat the Streets launch. We used maps to help us find clues. The clues helped us to spell a word and the children worked wonderfully as a team. In class we have been practising our clay skills in art, learning about how websites are ranked in computing and we were amazed by the plot twist in our English readining book, Robot Girl! A great week - well done, Hedgehogs!
Our creativity winners 10.10.25
Our trip to Twycross Zoo! 9.10.2025
Week 4 - 29.9.25 What a busy week we've had in Hedgehogs! We have started a new unit of writing, focusing on the book 'Robot Girl' by Malorie Blackman. It has opened up so interesting debates regarding AI and the children have used modal verbs to make their speeches persuasive. In Geography, we were learning about different biomes, using atlas to locate countries and their biomes. We found it interesting how some countries have more than one biome. On Tuesday, as part of our athletics topic in PE, we were practising different throwing techniques (chest throw and over arm). We then used these to practise throwing howlers and basket balls, seeing how far we could thrown them. In art, we learnt about historical sculptors, looking at the sculptures previous made to give us ideas for out, which we will make in the coming weeks. Finally, we finished the school week with the success of getting 100% for both Fantastic Four and TT20 - Well done, Hedgehogs!
Our responsibility award winners 27.9.25
Week 3 - 22/09/25 This week we made pirates for the upcoming Art festival in Alfreton. We had great fun making them, using a range of materials and being creative.
19.9.25 Our award winners for aspiration - Well done!
Week 1 8.9.25 We've had a great first week in Hedgehogs. This week we have used some art skills to create drawings of plants. In science, we have made cuttings and planted them to see if they are asexual. In Maths we have continued to develop our knowledge of place value of numbers to 1,000,000. A great week - well done Hedgehogs!
25.10.24 Our Woodbridge Value award winners for confidence.
Design and Technology 24.10.2024 - we have loved making our chicken skewers today. We chopped up our chicken and vegetables and thought carefully about the spices we wanted to use. Later we tasted and evaluated our products. It was a great DT day.
Bikeability Certificate Presentation Assembly
22.10.2024 we have been working so hard to write our journey stories up this week. We can’t wait to invite parents and family members in to read our stories to you. They are amazing!
Design Technology 21.10.24 today we designed our chicken skewer. We can’t wait to make them on Thursday.
18.10.24 Our Woodbridge Value award winners for resilience.
Art 15.10.24 we used our clay the unique to help us create tropical plant sculptures using clay. We were so impressed with the finished outcome and we can’t wait to show them when they have dried.
🌈 Rainbow Grammar 🌈 14.10.24 today we used rainbow grammar cards to punctuate speech.
14.10.24 we loved going on the new trim trail today!
11.10.24 Our Woodbridge Value award winners for creativity.
Art 10.10.24 today we practiced using clay skills to help us create sculptures using clay. We can’t wait to create our final product next week.
Computing 8.10.24 today we designed our own website and looked at how search engines rank websites based on a point system. We used the system to improve the ranking of our web pages.
Geography 7.10.24 Today we used information gathered and research to compare the Amazon Rainforest to Rio de Janerio. It was so interesting learning about the physical and human features.
04.10.24 Our Woodbridge Value award winners for responsibility.
3.10.24 Today we learnt how to become better partners by asking questions to find out information about each other. We were developing our listening and speaking skills. It was great fun.
Maths 1.10.24 we have been learning how to use pictorial and abstract methods to add numbers with more than four digits.
Geography 30.9.24 Today we have been learning about the different biomes that make up our world. We were interested to learn that deserts can be hot and cold places. We also learnt that the tundra biome covers 1/5 of the Earth.
27.9.24 Our Woodbridge Value award winners for pride.
English 25.9.24 We have started our independent write today. We are creating non-chronological reports on hedgehogs. We can’t wait to share these with you.
Computing 24.09.2024 we have looked at different search engines and how effective they are at giving us the information we need to find. We concluded that Google and Bing search engines are more reliable than the others used.
Geography 23.09.2024 Today we have been learning about biomes and the different layers of the rainforest. We then carried out research to find out which plants and animals live in the different layers.
20.9.24 Our Woodbridge Value award winners for aspiration
Art 19.9.24 Today we used the sketching skills we developed last week to sketch plants. We enjoyed practising with the different techniques used.
Rainbow Grammar 18.9.24 We have been practising identifying subordinating conjunctions and writing adverbial clauses.
English 17.9.24 Today we have enjoyed learning new facts about Hedgehogs. We are going to use these facts to help us write a non-chronological report.
P.E 17.9.24 Another great lesson on the gym equipment. We really enjoyed getting our heart rate up and pushing ourselves to get stronger and fitter.